Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]

Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.  […]

“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes is a collaborative exhibition co-curated with youth from the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington State, on view from September 19, 2025–May 10, 2026, at the Clyfford Still Museum. It highlights the perspectives of Colville children on Clyfford Still’s depictions of […]

Woodward Gallery opens the new year with Richard Hambleton: Momentum, an exhibition of works spanning 1982 - 2007. This selection brings together key bodies of work, including Beautiful Paintings, Shadowman, and Burning Merit, to trace movement as a persistent and driving force throughout Hambleton’s practice. Hambleton achieved the impossible: capturing the illusion of motion on […]

The gallery’s fourth solo presentation featuring the work of celebrated American artist Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing includes abstract paintings and works on paper created between 1954 and 1968. Taking its title from the introduction to Delaney’s 1964 solo exhibition at Galerie Lambert in Paris written by his close […]